Eric Stefanski I Love Myself I Hate Myself For Sale

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Eric Stefanski's "I Love Myself I Hate Myself" presents a stark confrontation with the fractured nature of self-perception, rendered in oil pastel and charcoal on heavyweight paper. The work features the titular phrase executed in Stefanski's characteristic hand, where text becomes both image and confession. The dual media create a tension between the waxy resistance of oil pastel and the smudged vulnerability of charcoal, producing a surface that feels simultaneously deliberate and unstable. The words themselves carry the weight of the piece, their physical presence on the paper acting as emotional residue—traces of an interior monologue made visible and permanent. The emotional register oscillates between acceptance and rejection, mirroring the cyclical nature of the statement itself. There is no resolution offered, no synthesis of these opposing impulses. Stefanski allows the contradiction to exist without apology, presenting self-love and self-loathing not as endpoints but as coexisting states that define contemporary psychological experience. The intimate scale of the work—just eleven by fourteen inches—demands close looking, pulling the viewer into a private space of reckoning. Within Stefanski's broader practice of text-based painting, this piece represents an extension into works on paper while maintaining his commitment to language as primary visual material. The shift from acrylic on canvas to oil pastel and charcoal introduces a rawness and immediacy that complements the confessional nature of the content. For collectors interested in acquiring this work, Guy Hepner in New York can provide additional information and facilitate the process.